Now in its seventh season, Top Chef is still breaking enough ground to have scored an Emmy this weekend in the “Outstanding Reality-Competition Program” category. (Then again, the award may not be a fair gauge of innovation: The Amazing Race has won it seven years in a row.) But a…
Reality TV just got a little sweeter. To celebrate the September 15 debut of Bravo’s Top Chef spinoff, Top Chef Just Desserts, OpenTable.com is offering free dessert with meals purchased at more than 30 restaurants in Dallas and Fort Worth. Make your reservation through the online service at one of…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: The Elbow Room, 3010 Gaston Ave., 214-828-9488When: 3 p.m. to 8 p.m…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Luckily for steak-loving Dallas diners, chef Richard Chamberlain wasn’t much interested in tilling the soil when he was a young man. Girls on the other hand — well, them he liked. That’s not exactly surprising for a 14-year-old boy — Chamberlain’s age when he took his first step on the…
Fruiti Pops, Inc., based in Santa Fe Springs, California, is voluntarily recalling its 4-oz Mamey Paletas frozen fruit bars due to possible contamination with Salmonella typhi, the cause of typhoid fever. If that seems familiar to you, it should be. Goya Foods recalled its frozen mamey pulp earlier this month…
We know it’s not the end of the world if we have to valet. It’s not as if the attendant’s going to go apeshit and take our car for a joyride. Things like that only happen in ’80s comedies starring Matthew Broderick, right? The truth is that plenty of valet…
Labor Day used to be a really big deal. Back when a minimum wage was considered radical and child labor was the norm, workers turned out in fearsome numbers to march for their rights. More than 10 thousand workers joined the first-ever Labor Day parade in New York in 1882,…
Slow Food Dallas is planning to use a portion of the proceeds from its upcoming $100 per plate benefit dinner to help launch a community garden in a Vickery Meadows area apartment complex. The local chapter has traditionally raised money to send delegates to the biannual Terra Madre conference in…
Dallas’ first permitted custom-built food truck will serve its inaugural breakfast burrito tomorrow morning. City Street Grille, housed in a truck wrapped with an image of the Dallas skyline, will be parked in the lot of Bob’s Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue from 6:30 a.m.-9 a.m., Monday through…
If you think Texas belongs in a documentary about Southern food, now’s the time to say so. The Southern Foodways Alliance is asking folks to submit, via its Facebook page, “the one dish/ingredient/food event/restaurant/etc. from your home area that you’d like to see in a documentary abt Southern food.” The…
Food trucks, or their paucity, in Dallas are hot. The topic has been covered by local food media outlets, including City of Ate. One food truck has done more to highlight residents’ desire for mobile food vendors. That food truck, Green House Truck, has been nominated as one of America’s…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Having been on a business trip in New York for the last two weeks, I thought, surely I’d be off blogging duties. However, the man had different ideas for me, with a seemingly innocuous send-off of, “Have a safe trip. Send in anything interesting you might find.” Crap. Seeing as…
Paula Lambert’s Mozzarella Company had another strong showing at this year’s American Cheese Society competition, the artisanal cheese industry’s version of the Academy Awards. Nearly 1,500 cheeses were entered in the annual competition, which includes 110 hotly contested categories such as “cheeses flavored with whole or crushed peppercorns” and “cheddar…
I’ve been totally jazzed about telling all you drinkers, girl and otherwise, about how bad ass Geeks Who Drink on Mondays at the Barley House is. It is just 2 weeks old, but it is outstanding. Geeks Who Drink, for those who don’t know, is an organized pub quiz for…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Have you been thinking to yourself what’s been going on at Morton’s The Steakhouse in downtown Dallas? Well, we have all kinds of updates for you. First, the popular steakhouse just added a few new items to its menu, including crab cake BLT, smoked salmon pizza, double cut and bone-in…
Texas A&M University-Kingsville has become the latest institution to clamp down on tortilla tossing. “Over the course of the past year, I wrestled with a difficult issue related to the spirit of the institution,” President Steven Tallent explained in a recent statement banning the practice at football games. Tallent called…
There are only four items on the Mextopia brunch menu. The restaurant itself sits on the presently blighted block of Lower Greenville Avenue, the block where after the apocalypse, it’ll just be that 7-Eleven and the Simply Fondue and maybe one guy with a keg in the burned ruins of…
You just invented the Opti-Grab just like The Jerk’s Navin R. Johnson, or possibly hit it big in what many now may consider their only chance at retirement, the lottery. What would you do with all that loot after buying a ration of fine automobiles and country estates? Well, you…
Meritage or Claret? What’s the difference? Typically, both terms refer to Bordeaux-style blends, heavy on the Cabernet Sauvignon and/or Merlot, with one or more of the regions classic blending grapes added for body, spice and completeness. Most fans of Argentinian reds would be surprised to learn that Malbec actually originated…
